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Guess what, Mango? What's that, Will? It's November, and you know what that means? National saxophone days coming off. That is true. I've seen all the fun holidays coming up, but that's not actually what I'm thinking. The percentage of people sporting mustaches is about to rise significantly. That's your clue. Yeah, that's right. It's Movember. Yeah, I was looking at some of the history of Movember, and I thought the origin story from Adam Garon, he's the chief Mo Bro, as he's listed, and the co-founder of the MoVimber Foundation, I thought it was pretty funny as he talked about how the idea started. This was back in 2004. It all came up over a few beers. And I don't know if you've ever seen his TED talk from 2011, but he explains it this way. He says, it was my brother,

me, and a maid having a few. And the conversation turned to 70s fashion. How everything seems

to be coming back in style. And after a few more beers, we said, what about the mustache?

Why hasn't that come back? Then one more beer. it was, whatever happened to the mustache? And so the day ended with the challenge to bring the mustache back. A year or so later, they decided to let the mustache movement raise some money specifically for men's health. This includes prostate and testicular cancer research, and they've now

raised more than half a billion dollars since than half a billion dollars. Is that not incredible?

That is crazy. So is this the year you're going to rock like a Freddie Mercury mustache?

You know, I'm thinking more of it like a William Howard Taft handlebar is going to be my style this year.

It seems appropriate. Either way, today feels like the right day to share some of our favorite facts about mustache.

So let's get started.

Yeah. Hey there, podcast listeners. Welcome to Part-Time Genius. I'm Will Pearson, and as always, I'm joined by my good friend Mengesh Hot Ticketer.

And on the other side of the soundproof glass, somehow miraculously sporting the most incredible Wilford Brimley walrish stash is our friend and producer Tristan

McNeil. How in the world did we not notice is growing a mustache? So impressive. And we're also

joined by two of our friends here in the How Stuff Works family. We've got Eve's Jeffcoat.

You guys recognize hers as the one we acknowledge in the credits, being responsible for getting the show to your ears. She knows the magic codes to make the show appear wherever you listen to your podcast. So welcome, Eve's. Yeah, something like that. Something like that. We've also got Alex Williams. He's on the audio engineering team with Tristan, so I'm guessing he's just as surprised as we are at that massive mustache. But welcome, Alex. I am always surprised and impressed by Tristan McNeil.

The legend. All right. Well, let's get started. So now neither of our guests have mustaches, but both claim to know a ton about them. So we thought we would give them a shot.

You ready to kick us off, Eves? Yeah, let's do it. You get fact number one. Go for it.

So mustaches, surprisingly, have protective health benefits. Really? Yeah, they do. So they block

some of the effect of ultraviolet radiation from getting to your skin, lowering the risk for skin cancer.

So usually, you know, UV radiation that gets to your skin can cause skin cancer because it damages the DNA in your skin cells.

And mustaches can help a lot with that because they reduce the radiation exposure to a mere one-third.

Wow.

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